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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
All the tracks have to do is come to the table with a better deal. They refuse to deal with THG because they dont want the horseman to be united nationally. I cant believe that you guys dont understand the deals that sre asking us to take. Do you understand they want us to take less than half of what we get for regular simulcast and on track bets? Do you think it is a coincidence that handle goes up and purses go down? So we should sign a deal that is a horrible business deal for us because it is inconveinent for you? Maybe you should be asking the tracks why they think we deserve less money? Maybe you should ask CM if he thinks that it is a coincidence that Tracknet (which is CDI) is making tracks do the same thing they railed against TVG for? Or that CDI suddenly is so concerned with AWD'd since it is now operating one? Maybe you forgot that it was the horseman that pushed to open CA to ALL AWD's when CDI and Magna were trying to cut out everybody else.
Geary made a bad deal when he bought the track. He thought for some reasons that he could "turn it around" by ignoring all the issues that a track in an area with demographics like Evansville has. His insistence that the judge not granting an injunction against the horseman was the main reason that he was closing now, rings hollow. The law is very specific and this hearing was a formality. He was simply looking for a scapegoat and apparently has found one. Personally i dont like Ellis park and rarely run there. But for the people that have jobs there and the horseman stabled there who depend on it, I feel bad for.
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I just dont see the point in what the horsemen are doing down here and the relationship with Fla tracks by the horsemen at CD. By locking up the signal at CRC to only FL residents is insane. The horsemen down here are killing themselves and Calder. They dont seem too eager to want to negotiate from what I have seen. They would rather watch the handle go down 75% and purses cut to nothing. Smart move.
I mean how screwed up is it that we cant bet CD down here in S. Florida? It's ridiculous that the signal is being withheld by the horsemen up there. From what I have read the tracks have been willing to negotiate a bit, but the horsemen are saying "it's this or nothing".
I am not saying that CD and CRC are 100 % innocent...but it seems they are willing to negotiate a bit, while the horsemen aren't.